1 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Good morning. 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I made a comment on air Friday about protesters in 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 2: the weather that was insensitive and poorly timed, and I'm sorry. 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 2: It was a misguided, attempted humor, and while it was 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: never met with any ill intent or political affront, I 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 2: absolutely and wholeheartedly want to apologize to those who genuinely 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 2: were hurt or offended by it. Nine to Noon doesn't 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 2: formulate political opinions. We don't bash or praise political discussions, 9 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: or even focus on political issues. This time slot always 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: has been a sports centered, spaced built to entertain a 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: place where we chat about sports, offering escape from the 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: heavy stuff and give listeners the distraction they need from 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 2: everything else going on. As I have stated many times before, 14 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: we serve you, not the other way around. We're very 15 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: fortunate and thank you for counting on us as long 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 2: as as you have. It means more than you'll ever know. 17 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 2: My best was lacking Friday, and for that I am sorry. 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: I am taking a few days off, but wanted to 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: express these thoughts and my sincere apology with you before 20 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 2: I do. We thank our friend Paul Charchian for handling 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: nine to Noon Today. 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: Soda. Paul Charchian with you. It is. 23 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 3: Wonderful to be back Minnesota talking football. 24 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 1: It's been too long. 25 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: I didn't have the luxury of every Friday in the 26 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 3: football feast to talk about all things Vikings every single week, 27 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 3: and I could be more excited to be back on 28 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 3: the air. KFA N I have missed you, did not 29 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: have the opportunity to be on as mess as I 30 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 3: wanted to have said d during the year, but we 31 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: have a great opportunity to catch up now. 32 00:01:59,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: I know. 33 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 3: There's so much happening in Minnesota, so much happening around 34 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 3: all of us every day it is. It's weighing on everybody. 35 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 3: And like everybody, I think I've got right answers, some 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: kind of special insight that appears obvious to me but 37 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 3: apparently is not to everybody. But that is not what 38 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 3: this show is going to be about today. We are 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 3: going to focus on three hours of fun sports, Vikings, 40 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: super Bowl, football, Whiskey. For thirty years, my role at 41 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 3: the station for Better or Worse has been fun. 42 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: Guy. 43 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: You know, it's been fantasy football, which is fun, mostly fun. 44 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 3: It's not always fun, it's mostly fun, especially when you 45 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 3: win video games, fun board games, fun whiskey, fun, We're 46 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 3: going to have a great show. We're going to take 47 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: our minds off of more serious things and talk a 48 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 3: lot of football for the next three hours. Brett Blakemore 49 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 3: joining me. Hi Brett, Hi Chargie. How are you good 50 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: your favorite team season ended one week later than my 51 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 3: favorite team? 52 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: Yeah? 53 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, Tragically your defensive coordinator is gone. Later on in 54 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 3: the show, I think we'll touch on that a little 55 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 3: bit and how you feel about that. But I'm glad 56 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 3: to have you along for this one. We opened the 57 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 3: show with a little CCR and not going to spend 58 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 3: a lot of time on this, but CCR has always 59 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: been a band that I've felt very indifferent toward. But 60 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 3: I know Common Loves and he and I years back 61 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: have sparred about CCR. Just learned a ton about CCR 62 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 3: in my five hundred Songs the History of Rock and Roll. 63 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: In five hundred Songs podcast, they just dropped an episode 64 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: on CCR and learned a ton didn't know the whole band. 65 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 3: The whole band hated John Fogerty and he hated his 66 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 3: whole band. So much fascinating drama with that band, But man, 67 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 3: could they make hits. I'm not going to spend a 68 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 3: lot of time on CCR. In fact, virtually no more 69 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: time on CCR. But they they were for a period 70 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 3: of about a year and a half, second only to 71 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: the Beatles in terms of a hit making operation. It 72 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 3: was unreal. It's an amazing story. Someday I'm gonna I'm 73 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: gonna cross I'm gonna cross Common on air and we're 74 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: gonna break down, breakdown some CCR. But first in this show, 75 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 3: we are going to break down the two football games 76 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 3: from yesterday. They were both epic in totally different ways. 77 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 3: You're going to hear what I believe to be the 78 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 3: ultimate Donald diatribe coming up. We are finally going to 79 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: say it in the form of a declarative statement. The 80 00:04:52,760 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 3: Vikings made a mistake by not signing Sam Donald, period, 81 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 3: No equivocating know well what happens with JJ mccartt nothing, no, 82 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 3: probably is no, maybe he's no ifs. The Vikings made 83 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 3: a mistake by not signing Sam Darnold. We will talk 84 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 3: through that some in fair a fair amount over the 85 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 3: course of the show. I want to talk about JJ 86 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 3: McCarthy a little bit later as well. I haven't had 87 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 3: a lot really a chance to spend time with him. 88 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 3: One of my favorite people from the fantasy industry is 89 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: Sigmund Bloom. He's a co owner at Football Guys. He's 90 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 3: got a fantastic podcast called On the Couch and Sigsman 91 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 3: on the station many times. I have him on about 92 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: once a year. I'm going to bring him on at 93 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 3: eleven o'clock. At ten o'clock. Fred Minnick also somebody I've 94 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: had on the station many times, America's premiere whiskey Expert. 95 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 3: He's got two podcasts, The Fred Minnick Show and Fourth 96 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 3: and Neat co starring Jared Allen. 97 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: Fred and Jared Allen have their own podcast. 98 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 3: We'll talk about his new book called Bottom Shelf, which 99 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 3: is the story of Old Crow Whiskey, and he want 100 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 3: us to throw some love to our local distilleries, Brother 101 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 3: Justice and Keeper's Heart. Well, we'll hear from Fred Minnick 102 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 3: a little bit later in this show as well. So 103 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of things that have that 104 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 3: have transpired here just in the last twenty four hours. 105 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 3: Let's start Brett Patriots Broncos, and I don't think you 106 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: can start by talking about a Bronco loss without celebrating 107 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 3: that Sean Peyton is not going to the Super Bowl. 108 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 3: That now, that is something that all Minnesotans can agree upon. 109 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 3: Sean Peyton will not be in the Super Bowl, and 110 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 3: that is a great day for all mankind. You know, 111 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 3: we've had we had such great playoffront we had through 112 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 3: the three weeks of the playoffs, we had eight different 113 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 3: games that finished within one score. 114 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: We only had two blowouts. 115 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 3: Houston rolled Pittsburgh and the Seahawks obliterated the forty nine ers. 116 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: I mean, if. 117 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: If you have watched these playoffs and did not enjoy it, 118 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 3: you do not like football. I don't think there's any 119 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 3: I just don't think you enjoy football. These games were, 120 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 3: by and large just they were fantastic games. Would have 121 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 3: obviously preferred that the Vikings get or would have been 122 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 3: a part of it. And there's still there's still no 123 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 3: part of me that believes, had the Vikings chosen basically 124 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 3: any other path at quarterback, the Vikings would be in 125 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 3: the playoffs. But that's kind of loser talk. The reality 126 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: is the the win total wasn't there. They were won 127 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: away from making the playoffs, one win away from making 128 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 3: the playoffs. The reality is they they did not. But 129 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 3: absolutely fantastic set of playoff games let's start Patriots. 130 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: Denver only. 131 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 3: Seventeen points in the game ten to seven, and the 132 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: game's going to be remembered as snow, completely changing the 133 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: complexion of the game. For the first two thirds of 134 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 3: the game, there was no snow at all. Field conditions 135 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 3: were fine, and then as Denver is wont to do, 136 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 3: the snow came, and it came hard, and both of 137 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 3: the offenses could not do anything. Denver, Man, it's just 138 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 3: thirty two yards in the second half of the game 139 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 3: thirty two and it wasn't even snowing for all thirty two. 140 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 3: Jared Stidm was part of the problem. The running game 141 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 3: could never get on track. Patriots defense way better than 142 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 3: people think it is even now. 143 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: We'll talk a. 144 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 3: Little bit more about that later in the show as well. 145 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 3: May he should win MVP. He's looked fantastic. 146 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 4: You know. 147 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 3: I don't know how much truth there was to the 148 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 3: much reported idea that the Vikings tried. 149 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: To move to pick three to give Drake May. 150 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 3: I would like to believe it's true because that suggests 151 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 3: that the Vikings front office correctly identified Drake May as 152 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 3: a great player, but at the same time, based on 153 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: what we know now, about Drake May as he is 154 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 3: heading to the Super Bowl in his second year. The 155 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 3: Vikings should have paid whatever the price was. Whatever it 156 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 3: was that the Patriots wanted, you should have paid. 157 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: The reports that. 158 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 3: I have seen is they wanted two first rounders, a 159 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 3: defensive starter and an offensive starter. The correct answer was, sure, 160 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: name your starters it. Drake May is fantastic. He was 161 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: the leading rusher in the game yesterday with sixty five yards. Actually, 162 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 3: reminder Stevenson in a few more yards. He has thrown 163 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 3: the ball incredibly well, led the NFL in completion percentage 164 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 3: despite the fact that he had the third deepest average pass. 165 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 3: Those two stats generally only correlate negatively. Those people who 166 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 3: throw down field do not throw down field with a 167 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: high completion percentage, but not Drake May. And Drake May's 168 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 3: doing it with the league's most vanilla set of receivers 169 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 3: Pop Douglas Stefan Diggs, who's clearly still not right from 170 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 3: last year's ACL and at his age might never be 171 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 3: the same player again, Kayshawn Booty, Mac Collins, Kyle Williams, 172 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 3: and yet Drake May is on the cusp of winning MVP, 173 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 3: and he is going to the Super Bowl, and I 174 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: think if we're going to talk Patriots Denver, let's talk 175 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 3: about Mike Rabel. This is the ultimate example of how 176 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 3: you have to get the coaching staff right. Remember last year, 177 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 3: Jared Mayo was hired very quickly. The team had four wins, 178 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 3: and they fired Jared Mayo. 179 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: They moved on. 180 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 3: They knew the Patriots and Robert Kraft knew they had 181 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 3: made a mistake, and they flipped the script instantly, and 182 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 3: they got Mike Rabel, who obviously they knew well. Rabel 183 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 3: had been Patriot for during his playing career. They played 184 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 3: against Rabel many times as the head coach of the Titans. 185 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 3: By the way, side note on Frabel with this time 186 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 3: of the Titans and the Titans organization. Vrabel, in one 187 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 3: season with the Patriots now has more wins than the 188 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 3: Titans have had since they fired Mike Vrabel three years ago. 189 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 3: Vrabel had an one really interesting decision in that game. 190 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 3: Down the stretch, his team is up ten to seven. 191 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier, snow's falling like crazy. It's turned into 192 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 3: they were using the term blizzard. I'm not going blizzard 193 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 3: because Minnesotans know what a real blizzard is. It was 194 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 3: just heavy snowfall. But the snowfall was bad enough that 195 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 3: you could not see the yard lines. It was funny watching, 196 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 3: you know, I think it was. 197 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: Jim Nantz for this one. 198 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 3: Nance is trying to reset between plays, ballows at the 199 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,079 Speaker 3: thirty two yard line whatever. He doesn't know what the 200 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: yard line is because you can't tell. You can't see 201 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 3: the yard lines. They were trying to like blow off 202 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 3: every fifth line with a snowblower, but that didn't work 203 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 3: very well. You didn't really know it was if it 204 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 3: was it third and three or was it third and five, 205 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 3: You don't know, can't really tell. None of the yard 206 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 3: yard lines could be seen. Rabel, up three points in 207 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 3: the fourth, basically for the entire fourth quarter, stopped trying 208 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 3: to score. He simply ran the ball three times and 209 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 3: punted run, run, run, punt, run, run, run, punt, run, run, run, punt. 210 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 3: Because Rabel was so confident that Jared's did him and 211 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos would not be able. 212 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: To score any points. 213 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 3: He and I believe he thought his defense was going 214 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 3: to be in what has a better chance of scoring 215 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 3: in those conditions than his offense did. Now, if you're 216 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 3: rewind the clock a little bit earlier in the game 217 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 3: with Sean Payton, and again we love it when bad 218 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 3: things happened to Sean Payton. 219 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: He may have cost his team to win. 220 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 3: On fourth down trailing seven to zero early in the game, 221 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 3: maybe early second quarter. From memory serves, it's fourth and 222 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: one on the Patriots fourteen yard line, now fourth and 223 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 3: one in the NFL in the past five years, and 224 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 3: thanks mostly to Dan Campbell, has evolved into it you 225 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 3: always go for it always, and sure enough Sean Payton, 226 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 3: despite having Jarrett Stidham as his quarterback and some impending 227 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 3: bad weather on fourth and one from the Patriots fourteen 228 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 3: yard line, decided to go for it. He would have 229 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 3: been It would have been a chip shot field goal 230 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 3: with a ninety five percent make rate, and as the 231 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: final score of ten to seven indicates. 232 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: The three points were really important. 233 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 3: Later in the game, Stidham, who played okay early and 234 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 3: he completed one long bomb to Marvin Mims and he 235 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 3: wasn't awful, but he was also not great Stidham's Stedham 236 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 3: at one point got pressure in the pocket, shifted a 237 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 3: little bit to his right, and then had a backward pass. 238 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: We think he was trying to intentionally ground the ball, 239 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 3: but Stidham threw backwards under pressure. 240 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: Patriots came up with the ball. 241 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 3: And that was basically the end of the game for 242 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 3: the Broncos. 243 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: Now, for Broncos. 244 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 3: Fans, this AFC Championship game stings brutal their home field throughout. 245 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 3: They're the number one seed and there's no Patrick Mahomes 246 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 3: to get in their way. No Mahomes, no Chiefs, no 247 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 3: Andy Reid. You know, for the last nine years, it's 248 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 3: been Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs, Andy Reid. For the next 249 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 3: nine years, it's going to be Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid 250 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 3: and the Chiefs that you got to get through. This 251 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 3: was the year that a great defense could deliver a 252 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 3: Super Bowl to Denver, and Sean Payton came up short. 253 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: Mike Frabel. 254 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 3: At the end of the game, I love this said 255 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 3: about his players. There's no curfew tonight, but the team 256 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 3: bus leaves at eight am, and if you're not on it, 257 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 3: you're not playing in the Super Bowl. 258 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 1: I love that. 259 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 3: It's fantastic. Patriots win ten to seven. Drake Mays head 260 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl. Let's send the other game and 261 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 3: we're not going to use up all our Sam Donald Ammo, 262 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 3: that's gonna come next segment, but I do want to 263 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 3: talk through Ram Seahawks, Sam Donald Matthew Stafford in one 264 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 3: of the great playoff quarterback duels of all time. And 265 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 3: that is not prisoner of the moment hyperbole. What Donald 266 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 3: and Stafford just did was epic. Now, I said, Sam 267 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 3: Donald brilliantly dueled Matthew Stafford, I didn't say outdueled Matthew Stafford. 268 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 3: His team did win the game, but Matthew Stafford was fantastic. 269 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: They both were. 270 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 3: Six combined touchdowns, They each threw three, no interceptions for 271 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 3: either quarterback, seven hundred passing yards. They both had right 272 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 3: around three hundred and fifty Dan identical passer rating of 273 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty seven. Donald and Stafford. Somebody had 274 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 3: to lose. It was Stafford. He becomes the first quarterback 275 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 3: to throw for three hundred and fifty yards, three touchdowns, 276 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 3: no picks and lose a playoff game. It had never 277 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 3: happened before in the whatever the super Bowl era of 278 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 3: fifty eve what do we have fifty five years or 279 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 3: something like that of Super Bowl era playoffs? And credit 280 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 3: Sam Donald, And we're going to talk a lot more 281 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 3: about Sam in a minute. He's faced this Rams team 282 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 3: four times in basically a year. Sean McVeigh is arguably 283 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 3: the best coach in football. And we know what McVeigh 284 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 3: did to Donald last year as a Viking. The fact 285 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 3: that Sam Donald has back to back wins against the 286 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 3: Rams incredibly incredibly awesome for Sam. The game opened with 287 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 3: a bomb to Rashid Shahed. Now, for those of you 288 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 3: that have not tracked this very closely, Rashid Shaheed is 289 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 3: has been. 290 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: The trade deadline. 291 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 3: Acquisition of Rashid Shaheed might be the reason, the the catalyst, 292 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 3: the one little extra thing that Seattle needed to go 293 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 3: from good to great. 294 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: Shaheed is a kick returner, has been. 295 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 3: A electric Rashid Shahed is a receiver, has stretched opposing 296 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 3: defenses in a way that Cooper Cup and Jake Bobo 297 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 3: and even Jackson Smith and Jigba was not because Shahed 298 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 3: is vertical speed. And on the very first drive and 299 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 3: the play call was brilliant bomb from Donald to Rashid 300 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 3: Shahed and that told the Rams and was successful, and 301 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 3: that told the Rams they had to guard the deep 302 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 3: part of the field. And when you have to guard deep, 303 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 3: it's going to open up stuff. Underneath, and it did 304 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 3: all game. Now Stafford ended up answering with the bomb 305 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 3: of his own to Pukin Kuah both Nikua and Jackson 306 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 3: Smith and Jigbo. Was the amazing subplot we talked about 307 00:20:53,160 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 3: Sam Donald and Matthew Stafford just trading blows. They were 308 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 3: doing it with pookin Akua and Jackson Smith and Jigba 309 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 3: as their wingmen. Nikoua finishes nine catches one hundred and 310 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 3: sixty five yards, Jackson Smith and Jigba ten catches one 311 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty three yards. 312 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 1: Epic, absolutely epic. 313 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 3: Much of that Rams Seahawks game will be defined by 314 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 3: one of the dumbest plays in playoff memory, and it 315 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: nearly and maybe should have cost the Seahawks the game. 316 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 3: Cornerback Tyreek Woollan, who just I think prefers Reek. Well, 317 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 3: he broke up a pass play to pookin Akoua, and 318 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 3: it was he did a great job breaking up the 319 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 3: pass play to Pook. 320 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: But then Woolan. 321 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 3: Starts cocking off at the Rams bench and eventually so 322 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 3: much though that he's into their side line and he's 323 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 3: trading verbal jabs with the coaching staff and the players 324 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 3: that are there. Ref tries to tries to get him 325 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 3: to stop, and the ref is telling him to stop 326 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 3: and to get out. Wolan doesn't listen. He keeps the 327 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 3: verbal tirade going. It was fourth and twelve, fourth and twelve, 328 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 3: Woolan gets the personal foul. It turned it into a 329 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 3: first down and fifteen more yards and the very next play, 330 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 3: Sean McVay, with ice in his veins, goes right after 331 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 3: Tarik Woolan, who was who at that point is I 332 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 3: think still mentally on the previous play, badly trailing Puka 333 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 3: Nakua wide open. Stafford hits Nikua touchdown on the next play, 334 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 3: and at that point it went from a two point 335 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 3: game to I believe a two score game to a 336 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 3: four point game. Tyreek Willan should have been the goat 337 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 3: of that game, but Seattle ended up rallying for the win. 338 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 3: Colby Parkinson dropped a short touchdown late in the game 339 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 3: in which he absolutely would have scored and that would 340 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 3: have given the Rams the lead. Instead, the Rams had 341 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 3: to work their way down the field, went forward on 342 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 3: fourth and goal and came up short. Parkinson drop will 343 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 3: be remembered by Rams fans. Kenneth Walker was fantastic in 344 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 3: this game, both of the runner and a receiver chipped 345 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,479 Speaker 3: in over one hundred and ten total yards both ways. 346 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: He looked great. 347 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 3: We forget how good Kenneth Walker is because they use 348 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 3: a true time share in Seattle, and with Zach Charbonney 349 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 3: out Walker getting all the work you get, you get 350 00:23:53,240 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 3: reminded that guy's really really good. Jackson Smith and jabout 351 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: second most yards and playoff history for the Seahawks just 352 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 3: feasted on the ramszone coverage all game. And I'll note this, 353 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 3: which I thought was pretty interesting. The Seahawks defense so 354 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 3: good all year and good at everything. Great run defense, 355 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 3: they can attack the opposing passer, great, great at generating pressure. 356 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 3: They've got good cornerbacks, good at everything. 357 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 2: Really. 358 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 3: The two games in which the Seahawks allowed the most 359 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 3: yardage five and eighty one yards and four hundred and 360 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 3: seventy nine yards both came against the Rams, and Seattle 361 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 3: won them. 362 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 4: Both. 363 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 3: Very impressive, very very deserved win for the Seahawks. Clint 364 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 3: Koyak might walk out of this with a head coaching 365 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 3: job form of Viking coach, and that is it'd be 366 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 3: hard to say he would not deserve it, and I 367 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 3: think if frankly he'd be more deserving this. Some people 368 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 3: had already got jobs and there are still four four 369 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 3: open jobs, which is amazing at this late stage. All right, 370 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 3: let's uh, let's take a break. When we come back. 371 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 3: It's the Sam Donald Dia tribe you've been waiting for. 372 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 3: The Vikings made a mistake period no qualifiers. The Vikings 373 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 3: made a mistake by not signing Sam Darnald. We'll talk 374 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 3: it through when we come back. 375 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: To the fan. 376 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,239 Speaker 5: If you want to chime into what's happening to your 377 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 5: favorite KFAAN shows, you can. You can make your voice 378 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 5: heard on the Bradshaw Bryant CAFAN text line plus not 379 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 5: you have to say by texting your messages six four 380 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 5: six eighty six at six four six eight six text 381 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 5: message to data right supply. 382 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 4: First Nano snapped the fake nd on trunch back, got 383 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 4: a running back clock. Trust to the X touchdown leaving 384 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 4: Tell me the middle Shakepa with a leap and a 385 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 4: catch underneath the crossboard. Tell me middle seventeen yard touchdown 386 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 4: pass by Seattle and they now grow up twenty three 387 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 4: thirteen early in the third. 388 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: Over the rams. Fantastic games again. 389 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 3: If you didn't enjoy this playoff run. You don't like football, 390 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 3: and I don't know who you are, and we can't 391 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 3: be friends. 392 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: It was two great days of football. 393 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 3: But the lead story, I think for virtually everybody listening 394 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 3: is Sam Darnold. I want to approach this, uh, this 395 00:27:53,320 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 3: topic this way. Finally, it has to be said in 396 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 3: the form of a declarative, unequivocal statement, the Vikings made 397 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 3: a mistake by not signing Sam Donald. No use of 398 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 3: qualifying words like probably or maybe or time will tell 399 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 3: or if anybody who believes the Vikings made the right 400 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 3: decision to let Sam Donald go is I think delusional 401 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 3: and is doing so entirely without fact, just stubborn faith 402 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 3: in some combination of Kevin O'Connell, Quasia do Famensa and 403 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy, a belief that apparently JJ McCarthy will also 404 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 3: lead the team to a super Bowl and apparently more 405 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 3: of them, I said last segment. Given the way the 406 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 3: Vikings defense played in the second half of this year, 407 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 3: which was amazing, if this team had decided to go 408 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 3: with Sam Donald, it is not impossible to think the 409 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 3: Vikings would be the ones headed to the Super Bowl. 410 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 3: Probably not, but at least the opportunity would have been there. 411 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 3: The Vikings defense, spearheaded by Brian Flores, who was brilliant 412 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 3: in the second half of the season, was good enough 413 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 3: to win any game, and as Sam Donald has now 414 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 3: proven repeatedly, so is he. I think there is still 415 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 3: people out there who feel like they are a mini 416 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 3: Rob Razinski, and these cap cowards just can't imagine a 417 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 3: scenario where a team with Sam Donald's contract can get 418 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl. Despite the fact that Sam Donald 419 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 3: is going to the Super Bowl, these cap cowards believe 420 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 3: the only route is to draft a young quarterback like 421 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 3: Drake May and then have him be great early and 422 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 3: then he goes to the Super Bowl. And that is 423 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 3: a proven pathway. You can do it that way. That 424 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 3: is obviously not the only pathway. And at some point 425 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 3: in short order, Drake May is going to be a 426 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 3: very expensive quarterback. Drake May will become the highest paid 427 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 3: quarterback in the league, probably about fourteen months from now. 428 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 3: If you want to have quarterback in greatness, good enough 429 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 3: to go to and win Super Bowls, eventually have to 430 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 3: pay that quarterback. You want to pay that quarterback to 431 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 3: have greatness. The Vikings had Sam Donald. Let's talk about 432 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 3: the narrative on Sam Donald. If we just go back 433 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 3: twelve months, thirteen months, and his season is ending with Minnesota, 434 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 3: you all know this. Sam won fourteen games. He got 435 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 3: buried in Week eighteen against Detroit, and then for the 436 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 3: final game of the Vikings season last year, the wild 437 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 3: card game against the Rams, he was it was an 438 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 3: avalanche nine sacks. In fact, I've got the numbers here. 439 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 3: Let me see if I've got him right in front 440 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 3: of me. 441 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 1: In the. 442 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 3: Week eighteen game against the Lions, in which the Vikings 443 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 3: could have locked down the number one seed, Sam Donald 444 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 3: had thirty three hurries, hits, in sacks in one game 445 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 3: against the against the Detroit Lions, and then the next 446 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 3: week against the Rams, they registered forty three hurries, hits 447 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 3: and sacks on Sam Donald, and almost all Viking fans blamed. 448 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: Sam Donald. 449 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 3: The narrative was Sam Donald can't win the big game. 450 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: I don't think. 451 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 3: Joe Montana would have survived a two game stretch with 452 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 3: seventy six quarterback pressures. That narrative was wrong and has 453 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 3: been proven wrong by Sam Donald. 454 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: Everybody who threw that out, you were wrong. 455 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 3: It's almost like the fourteen wins never happened. The majority 456 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 3: opinion for Viking fans was to move on and give 457 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy the chance that comes with the draft equity. 458 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 3: The draft equity was a huge component to this, and 459 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 3: they're all player taking super young, promising tool set. 460 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: And here's the part that. 461 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 3: Frustrates me, old timers like me, the kirk Cousins apologist 462 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 3: in me coming through right now. You can't just manufacture 463 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 3: really good quarterbacks out of thin air. Before kirk Cousins 464 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 3: brought six years of stability to the quarterback position, six 465 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:05,719 Speaker 3: years we suffered through these leading passers for Minnesota. And 466 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 3: this is where the old guys come in. Going backwards, 467 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 3: pre kirk Cousins, we did Case Keenum for a year, 468 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 3: Sam Bradford for a year, Teddy Bridgewater for two years, 469 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 3: Matt Cassel for a year, Christian Ponder for two years. 470 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 3: Then we had the bad year of Farv, we had 471 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 3: a good year of Farv, Gus Varrot, Tavaris Jackson, two 472 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 3: years of Brad Johnson. Now we're all the way back 473 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 3: to two thousand and four, twenty years ago, and the 474 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:46,280 Speaker 3: only stable quarterback that we had was Kirk Cousins. People 475 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 3: think it's easy to find great quarterbacking. It's really really hard. 476 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 3: Just even competent quarterbacking is really hard. This team had good, too, 477 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 3: great quarterbacking with Sam Darnold, and let those final two 478 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 3: weeks of last year and the draft equity that they 479 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 3: had put into JJ McCarthy sunk cost change. 480 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: Their opinions and they went with JJ McCarthy. 481 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 3: During those years, the Keenom years, the Bridgewater years, the 482 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 3: Castle years, the Ponder years, the Gus Faratt years, the 483 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 3: Tavares Jackson year. 484 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,280 Speaker 1: We'd have begged, begged. 485 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 3: We were begging for a quarterback just like Sam Donald, 486 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 3: a quarterback who can throw for forty three hundred yards 487 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 3: and thirty five touchdowns, like Sam Donald did for the 488 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings. 489 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: Last year. 490 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 3: Sam Donald won the Pro Football Writer's Most Improved Player 491 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 3: Award Kevin O'Connell in part because of what he was 492 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:03,439 Speaker 3: able to do with Sam Donald becomes coach of the Year, 493 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,879 Speaker 3: he gets annointed quarterback whisperer. But that wasn't good enough 494 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 3: for us. Nope, we turned our back on Sam. That 495 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 3: narrative was set, can't win the big game. Ninety percent 496 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 3: of the people listening right now believe Sam Donald with 497 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 3: Pumpkin under pressure. 498 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: So he goes to Seattle. 499 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 3: We let him walk and you know what's gonna happen, 500 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,760 Speaker 3: But I'm gonna outline it anyway. Sam Donald was healthy 501 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 3: all year. Sam Donald played every game. He threw for 502 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 3: four thousand yards and twenty touchdowns on a balanced team. 503 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,399 Speaker 3: Four thousand yards is nothing to laugh at. The Bears 504 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,239 Speaker 3: still don't have a four thousand yard passer in the 505 00:36:55,280 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 3: history of the organization. Jackson Smith and Jigba catching ball 506 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:05,399 Speaker 3: from Sam Darnald leads the NFL in receiving yards and 507 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:15,839 Speaker 3: becomes a superstar. Even as late as Week I believe sixteen, 508 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,800 Speaker 3: when Seattle played the Rams, we were all being assured, 509 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 3: mostly by Vikings fans, that Sam Donald was gonna pumpkin 510 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 3: in big games. If you remember that Rams game for 511 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 3: Seattle Week sixteen, that was the one that was going 512 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,239 Speaker 3: to basically decide who was going to be the one 513 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,839 Speaker 3: seed in. 514 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: The NFC Epic Game. 515 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:45,399 Speaker 3: Hugely important Sam Darnald in The Seahawks won, and even 516 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,799 Speaker 3: after beating the Rams in Week sixteen to put themselves 517 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 3: on a path to the number one seed, there were 518 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,720 Speaker 3: still people who said sim well, Sam didn't do enough 519 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 3: in that game. Sam wasn't good enough. You watch he's 520 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 3: going to in the playoffs. Seattle ended up winning seven 521 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,879 Speaker 3: regular the final seven regular season games when they entered 522 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 3: the playoffs, and you know they the goalposts got moved 523 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,680 Speaker 3: by the Donald haters at remarkable speed. You know, first 524 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 3: it was Donald wasn't good enough to begin with. Then 525 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 3: it was he's going to lose in big games. And 526 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 3: then it was Seattle doesn't give him enough protection. He's 527 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 3: gonna with her underheat. Then it was, uh, well, he 528 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,879 Speaker 3: can't win in the playoffs, don't. 529 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,920 Speaker 1: I don't know how you move the field goals now. 530 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,799 Speaker 3: Know they You just have to come to an acceptance 531 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:50,240 Speaker 3: that Sam Donald is a damn good quarterback. Last week, 532 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 3: the Seahawks destroyed and Sam Donald destroyed the forty nine 533 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,479 Speaker 3: ers so badly the game was over in the first quarter. 534 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,880 Speaker 3: They barely even used Donald. I think he was sitting 535 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 3: on the bench by two thirds point in the game. 536 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,839 Speaker 3: Last night. Sam was awesome. As I mentioned in the 537 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 3: first segment, just the duel that he had, the quarterback 538 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:17,000 Speaker 3: duel that he had with Sam Donald was one for 539 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,760 Speaker 3: the ages and one of the great playoff quarterbacking games 540 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 3: of all time. Now, I think the Viking fan base 541 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 3: is starting to reach a level of acceptance that the 542 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 3: Vikings made a mistake by not keeping Sam Donald. I 543 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:50,839 Speaker 3: wonder how the players feel. What if you are a 544 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:56,560 Speaker 3: Vikings player right now and you're watching that game, and 545 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,280 Speaker 3: you're watching Sam Donald go pass for with a Hall 546 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 3: of Fame bound Matthew Stafford and just come up big. 547 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 3: What do you think those players are thinking right now 548 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:20,640 Speaker 3: about their team? The decision making? They know, Vikings players know, 549 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 3: and you wonder how that's going to affect next season? 550 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 3: They know it right now. Is it's something that will 551 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 3: continue to weigh on this organization and its players into 552 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:37,479 Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. 553 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:45,319 Speaker 1: It's possible. I want to give an opportunity. 554 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,600 Speaker 3: I want to give an opportunity to bring on the 555 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,480 Speaker 3: air my longtime Fantasy Football Weekly co host Brian Johnson. 556 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:59,520 Speaker 3: Brian Johnson was the first person who with a public 557 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,200 Speaker 3: form that I heard banging the drum to bring Sam 558 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 3: Donald to Minnesota back when he was a forty nine er, 559 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:13,800 Speaker 3: even before free agency had fully opened. He saw this coming. 560 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,959 Speaker 3: He's been promoting Sam Donald all along and he's been right. 561 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 3: And I think you deserve a peacock. Brian Johnson are 562 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,759 Speaker 3: you there, Nope, there he hang out. He hung up 563 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 3: on you dial him back. Let's see if we can 564 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,799 Speaker 3: get him back, because he has earned the right to 565 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 3: talk about his guy. He's got a wide variety of 566 00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 3: Sam Donald jerseys in his house. I believe he has 567 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,359 Speaker 3: got I don't think he's I don't know if he's 568 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 3: got Jets. I think he's got Panthers, Niners, Viking, Seattle, 569 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:53,600 Speaker 3: Sam Donald jerseys. He also had a he texted this 570 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,880 Speaker 3: to me. He's in Carolina where they have legal sports betting. 571 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:02,919 Speaker 3: He has. He had Jake Bob bow anytime touchdown, which 572 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 3: God bless him for hitting that Holy cow. That's I 573 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,320 Speaker 3: think Jake bow Will had four catches on the season. 574 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,479 Speaker 1: All right, Brian, you there? 575 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,239 Speaker 4: What up? Charge? How's it going? Man? Your vote? 576 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 1: But I don't know if you heard any of the 577 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 1: of the past segment. 578 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 4: Of course, I've been listening and I'm I'm mob speechless. 579 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,080 Speaker 4: You know, it's been it's been a solid twenty four hours. 580 00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:30,319 Speaker 1: We'll put it down. 581 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 3: Yep, there is the FFW Peacock and you've earned it, 582 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:36,200 Speaker 3: my man. 583 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,640 Speaker 1: What was it? What was it? 584 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,360 Speaker 3: What was it that originally gave you faith in Sam 585 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:48,000 Speaker 3: Darnold when everybody, including me. By the way, I did not. 586 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 1: Want Sam when they signed Sam. I didn't want Sam 587 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:51,560 Speaker 1: to be my quarterback for the Vikings. 588 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,439 Speaker 3: Now I changed my opinion over the course of the year, 589 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,399 Speaker 3: but when they signed him, I didn't want Sam. Here, 590 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 3: you did tell me what it was that you saw 591 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 3: in Sam Donald before almost anybody else. 592 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,800 Speaker 4: Well, when I first came to the realization of being 593 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,759 Speaker 4: a Donald believer a little over three years ago, of 594 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,200 Speaker 4: course I was petrified, faced an immense amount of ridicule. 595 00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,239 Speaker 4: I have to give a quick shout out to my 596 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 4: good friend, my boy Chuck better known as power Trip 597 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,840 Speaker 4: bets On in the station. But it was it was 598 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,320 Speaker 4: on our show chart to your show? Is that FW? 599 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,239 Speaker 4: It was late in the twenty two season. Donald was 600 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 4: on the Panthers that year. He didn't start the season 601 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,839 Speaker 4: for Carolina. That's when they had Baker and Donald. But yeah, 602 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,040 Speaker 4: he finally turned to Donald in like week twelve, and 603 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 4: long story short, he he looked all right. And I 604 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 4: remember he had a great matchup against the Bucks, and 605 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 4: I used him as to take a chance on me. 606 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,719 Speaker 4: As I take on and he blew up, and I'm like, 607 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,759 Speaker 4: I think I believe in this guy. And I went 608 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,320 Speaker 4: back and I you know, I was with everyone else. 609 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,160 Speaker 4: You know, prior to that, Donald was a bust is 610 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,879 Speaker 4: above you see in goes YadA, YadA, YadA. But went 611 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 4: back and you know, looked at his past, and no 612 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 4: quarterback you could transplant any quarterback in NFL history into 613 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,040 Speaker 4: Sam Donald's situation, a twenty year old drafted by the Jets, 614 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,160 Speaker 4: and I swear at this path, no quarterback not only 615 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 4: would have succeeded, maybe not even stayed in the league. 616 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,080 Speaker 4: Would you like to revisit this horror trail that was 617 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 4: Sam Darnell. Let's do it. Yeah. 618 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,360 Speaker 3: So there's Sam Donald landing with the Jets twenty nineteen, 619 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:33,200 Speaker 3: something like. 620 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:37,440 Speaker 4: That twenty eighteen, and by the way, loaded quarterback class 621 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:42,400 Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Sam Donald first quarterback 622 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,279 Speaker 4: to make the Super Bowl out of that class. But yeah, 623 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,759 Speaker 4: Donald drafted third by the Jets head coach Todd Bowles 624 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,960 Speaker 4: for whatever reason. He's still coaching the Buccaneers right now, 625 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 4: sinking that shit. But leading receivers. Robbie then went by 626 00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 4: Robbie Anderson. Robbie chosen Chris Herndon Quincy and on Pro 627 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,200 Speaker 4: Football Focus rated their past blocking twenty second, twenty year 628 00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,680 Speaker 4: old in New York. He got Mono Pie, went out 629 00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,120 Speaker 4: and had some fun. Awful year next year to hire 630 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 4: Adam Gasee. Now hindsight's twenty twenty, of course, back then 631 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,400 Speaker 4: didn't seem like a nightmare situation for those who don't know, 632 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,640 Speaker 4: Adam Gasee might be the worst head coach of this century. 633 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,080 Speaker 4: Had him the next two years, Jameson Crowder, Robbie Chosen 634 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:30,759 Speaker 4: Brashad Perriman, Braxton Barrios, Denzel Mims. These are the guys 635 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,359 Speaker 4: Donald are dealing with. Goes to Carolina under Matt rule. 636 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:40,680 Speaker 4: I mean, nothing was going his way, and then the 637 00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,200 Speaker 4: turning point was twenty three. In twenty twenty two, the 638 00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,920 Speaker 4: forty nine Ers made the NFC Championship under Rock Perdy 639 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,000 Speaker 4: got hurt in that game, needed Tommy John surgery, not 640 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,120 Speaker 4: getaranteed to start seasoning. Kyle Shanahan puts all his baskets 641 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,160 Speaker 4: into Sam Donald and perty ends up playing that year. 642 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,560 Speaker 4: But Shannon was ready to do at battle with Donald. 643 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,440 Speaker 4: I can give him the rest of history. I'm honestly like, 644 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:13,120 Speaker 4: I'm still happy for this guy because he he's He's 645 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,600 Speaker 4: gone through so much more crappy than you in the NFL, 646 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,240 Speaker 4: so I don't know, it's crazy, but I am like elated. 647 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,480 Speaker 4: I never thought I would be this big of a 648 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,920 Speaker 4: Sam Donald fan. But granted, he's made me a fair 649 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:29,400 Speaker 4: amount of money along the way. But uh, all I 650 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:30,840 Speaker 4: can say, man, thanks. 651 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:30,960 Speaker 1: For having me. 652 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:31,719 Speaker 3: Well done, my man. 653 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:36,160 Speaker 4: I appreciate you all time, work you. 654 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,800 Speaker 1: You deserve the peacock right there. Early. 655 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,200 Speaker 3: Sam Donald a believer, well documented many many times Fantasy 656 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,799 Speaker 3: Football Weekly mostly us giving you a hard time for 657 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,879 Speaker 3: your love of Sam Donald. But it's all paid off 658 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,160 Speaker 3: now and he is super Bowl bound. 659 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 4: One quick nugget, I saw, well, two quick nuggets, so 660 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,040 Speaker 4: we got to throw him. That are interesting. Twenty six 661 00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,719 Speaker 4: quarterbacks drafted from USC Donald the first one to make 662 00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:04,239 Speaker 4: a suit Bowl. And lastly, Donald Grandpa, one of the 663 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:08,120 Speaker 4: original Marlborough men. I'll go I'll come by his official name, 664 00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 4: Richard Hammer. He did not go by Richard Hammer though, 665 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 4: I'll let you so, Sam Donald. A unit comes from 666 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,320 Speaker 4: a unit, bloodline of you, a long. 667 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,799 Speaker 3: Line of units. All right, all right, Uh, thank you, 668 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,680 Speaker 3: my man. It's great to hear your voice again. And uh, 669 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,480 Speaker 3: you've you've earned a couple of weeks of enjoyment. I 670 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,399 Speaker 3: think Sam Donald is going to be a super Bowl 671 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,160 Speaker 3: winner in two weeks, but that's I'm reserving the right 672 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,640 Speaker 3: to change my mind. But first blush, I believe that's 673 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:40,400 Speaker 3: going to be the case. 674 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,359 Speaker 4: I hope so, and I believe so too. But they 675 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,839 Speaker 4: still got to play the game. And before I go, 676 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,160 Speaker 4: I just want to say I love you Minnesota, and 677 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,760 Speaker 4: miss you, and I love you thinking that you okay, 678 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,160 Speaker 4: and miss you. Charge. Thanks for having me on you. 679 00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:01,760 Speaker 3: Too, my man, Thanks Brian. When we come back. Fred 680 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 3: Minnick is America's premier whiskey expert. He's got two different podcasts, 681 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,880 Speaker 3: the Fred Minnick Show and his podcast with Jared Allen 682 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,080 Speaker 3: called Fourth and Neat. He's got a new book called 683 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,840 Speaker 3: Bottom Shelf. We're gonna talk a little bit about that. 684 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,480 Speaker 3: My good friend Fred Minnick joins us when we return